Li Hei Di

介绍

Portrait of Li Hei Di. Photo credit: credit Wenxuan Wang. Courtesy of the artist.

I miss the sun. The lack of light makes me search for light in my paintings.

— Li Hei Di

Born in Shenyang, China, in 1997, Li Hei Di attended Maryland Institute College of Art followed by Chelsea College of Art, and has a MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2022, LINSEED Projects, Shanghai presented the artist’s first solo exhibition, Tits at Dawn. She has been included in group shows at Galerie Marguo (2023); Gagosian, Hong Kong (2023); Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023); Downs & Ross, New York (2022), Public Gallery, London (2022) and LINSEED Projects, Shanghai (2022), amongst others. Her first solo exhibition with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery will take place in early 2024.

Li Hei Di’s effervescent paintings are abstract portraits of longing, desire and seduction. Repressed, animalistic feelings are translated into ephemeral scenes. She now lives and works in London.

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传记

Li Hei Di As of the fever of early summer groping in the dimness of the subconscious for the memory of the mid day warmth, 2023 (detail).

Born in 1997 in Shenyang, China

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2022	MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2020	BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2018	BFA Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2024	Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (forthcoming)
2023	Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2022	LINSEED Projects, ‘Tits at Dawn’, Shanghai, China

Group Exhibitions

2023	OCAT Shanghai, China (forthcoming)
	Galerie Marguo, ‘A New Sensation’, Paris, France
	Green Family Art Foundation, ‘Considering Female Abstractions’, Dallas, TX
	Gagosian, ‘Uncanny Valley’, Hong Kong
	Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, ‘Conscious Unconscious’, London, UK
2022	Downs & Ross, ‘In Defense of Secrets’, New York, NY
	Royal College of Art, ‘Degree Show’, London, UK
	ZERUI Gallery, ‘Memories of A Social Club That Doesn’t exist’, London, UK
	RuptureXibt, ‘Eyes, Dusk, Phantasmagoria’, London, UK
	Public Gallery, ‘Phantasmata’, London, UK
	ZERUI Gallery, ‘A/D D/A’, London, UK
2021	MAMOTH, ‘The Glass Bead Game’, London, UK
	LINSEED Projects, ‘Watch the Fire from the Shore’, Shanghai, China
2020	Chelsea College of Arts, Degree show, London, UK (online)